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Quick correction to the location of Tri Thundaga it's located in mission 4-4-4 for those also going crazy as to why it wasn't in 4-4-3

Thank you so much for the Guide It is really helping I've already got Tri Thundaga Quake and Libra! The best part is the 3rd day I started I love this game so I'm just gonna have fun while I get stronger!

This is the exact guide I’ve been looking for! Thank you so much, brother…cheers!

I came to this comments section looking for a simple answer to my question about this video. Why am I not seeing the 8-2 mission strand in Chapter 2? For the mako stones. Found the answer. You just have to talk to the scientist in the Materia room on the Soldier floor of Shinra building. He will have the red speech icon instead of the normal blue. Simple! Hope this helps some people!

First off love the information you pack into the videos thank you for that. With that said, you have to do a video on the "Cage of Binding". As far as I know it is not a mission. You find this hidden area at the end of the game when collecting from the Lake of Oblivion. Go to the materia that is misting from the ceiling. Fight all the creatures and a light bridge will open. Cross the bridge into Cage of Binding. The treasure box in the cell right before the boss fight has the best materia in the game. The FLARE materia puts all the rest to shame.

I am at this point now in the game, and have never been able to devote the time to follow one of your overpowered guides myself (though I've beaten almost every game you've done them for), but this one I am definitely doing!

Thank you!! This is exactly what I am looking for 🤩

Found this video kind of late (on chapter 6) but you can get hell thundaga/firaga, status ward/strike in M8-3 to hell and back without doing the magic pot farming. Buster stance + high jump and gravity will help you get through it

You get 2 Gold Rolling Pins + Hell Blizzaga from one of the 4-2 missions and you get 1 Gold Rolling Pin from 4-4-3. Skip the entire Magic Pot section of the video since, ALL YOU NEED IS 5 Gold Rolling Pins. You get multiple Gold Rolling Pins from missions and you can sell your useless equipment for Gil, you’ll have duplicates of a lot of equipment as you progress through the game. Go beyond chapter 2 & 3, you won’t be locked out of anything. I believe the magic pot grind is not essential

I struggled to get past 35-40% in missions but with help from this video I've managed to get most of the materia and now I'm smashing 9* missions with ease when I was struggling to get past 7* missions all I'm after now is the dual cast and do a farm to get leveled up quicker even though I've put about 50+ hours into the game already but godda say really enjoying playing now since I've found this video and was extremely helpful 👍

I got overpowered thanks to you! I didn't do the magic pot method because I found this video just after I did that. But I had just enough Gil to get started

7:23 timestamp for myself. Love the guides; in future videos, timestamps would help for recap. Thank you!

Some extra unnecessary info to add for this wonderful video Magic pot DMW can give the following: [Information Gathered by AbsoluteSteve way back when] Lvl 1: Curaga Materia, Drain Materia, Graviga Materia, Libra Materia. Lvl 2: Iron Bangle (HP +20%), Titanium Bangle (HP +30%), Carbon Bangle (HP +40%), Platinum Bangle (HP +50%). Lvl 3: Kaiser Knuckles (ATK +30), Shinra Beta Plus (VIT +80), Royal Crown (MAG +30), Crystal Orb (SPR +80). Lvl 4: Elixir x5, Elixir x10, Phoenix Down x1, Phoenix Down x3. Lvl 5: Ribbon (Prevents all status effects except Death), Gold Rolling Pin x1, Gold Rolling Pin x3, Gold Rolling Pin x5. Notes: I'd say everything in level 3 is pretty useful for early to near end game but will be replaced pretty quick late game (Genji armor and what not) Level 5 "Ribbon" is fantastic although it can be replaced by a "Super Ribbon" (which negates all status effects and is aquired from mission 9-6-2 or stolen from the Great Malboro) or even "Genji Shield" (From a randomly appearing Magic Pot enemy during mission 7-6-6. [Skills needed: Gil Toss, Costly Punch, 99999 damage (in other words you have to be able to dish out that much damage), and Octaslash (crazy right?)] ) So don't kill yer selves over getting these but it's just nice to know.

I'm right at the start of Chapter 3 myself and i'm playing on hard mode. Trying to get through what missions I can, so this is helpful, it's nice to know what missions I should go through first to get the best rewards.

Thanks for this your the dude I come to for my final fantasy games always great guides just started this so ill be sure to farm the magic pot mission lol.

A Tip for Magic Pot Farming: Follow Primals' tutorial until your first battle after satisfying Magic Pot. You will always summon them at the start of the battle. To cheese this a little, do not kill any Tonbery's, instead run into a corner away from them and wait for Magic Pot. If you do not get a Lvl. 5 or the item you want (gold rolling pins) simply restart the battle (forfeit and try again). You will get Magic Pot at the start once again with different RNG. Repeat until you (at minimum) get 3 Gold Rolling Pins on the first summon. (Preferably you'd repeat until you get 5 gold rolling pins but RNG can be a ~&#!@). If you get 3 gold rolling pins i'd recommend waiting until the heightened DMW state has reduced to normal, as it's fairly common to get 2 summons one after the other. After you have the 3-5 gold rolling pins continue following Primals' tutorial.

This Vid was awesome! Helped me a ton and ya earned a sub! I do wanna Note tho, I Started your Guide when I was In chapter 6 so I already had summons prior to Pot. However with the Accessories that guarantees rare drops You can Farm Countless Power fists from The Toneberrys at that master Toneberry mission And With about an Hour or so of Farming you'll have Plenty to sell To get 1mill gill so for anyone who Is like "well I'm screwed on the Whole Pot summon trick for those pins" while it's a tad slower you can farm an immense amount of Gil from those easy ass Toneberrys and that accessory :)

Loving this guide, took me a little bit to get used to everything, but now I'm starting to prep for heading into the Cave of Wonders so I can begin grinding my stats Electrocute really helped tear through those annoying Wutai missions, definitely my favorite materia so far!

I just watched your video, and I unknowingly did most of what you are sharing. I didn't do blast wave, and status ward/strike. I am doing it now, My Zack can cut through anything now!

Great guide man, thank you !!

So thanks to this guide, I somehow managed to steal both Goblin Punch and Hammer Punch from bosses in 4-4-6. Well got damn!!

I should also be noted that good rolling pins are found as treasures in some of the wutai stages. I found 3 of them so far

very detailed video sick spent 2 hours only got one pin against tomstoms didnt get the pot that crazy often

Awesome vid! You've earned another subscriber. I was just browsing YT and this was suggested to me. Another way to replay this game. By the way, I've discovered something with regards to farming items from Magic Pot. There was a spot in the map where you can fight tonberrys and it can get stuck walking. Meaning you can make tonberry stuck and just stand and wait till you get Magic Pot DMW.

Well im at around 21 hours, also around 55% mission completion dealing max damage with costly punch thanks to the new Buster Sword stance with less than 30 minutes of grinding in Chapter 8 while doing everything. They kinda made all this grinding a waste of time thanks to that new mechanic, which also has the added bonus of making you take less damage during your attacks and making it so you can't be interupted as well.

Get all of the materia from M8-2 missions/materia room at Shinra HQ first in Chapter 2. Then wait until Chapter 3, just when you reach the streets, but before you go to Loveless Avenue, you will have Cissnei’s heightened emotion, that is when you go to get the magic pot. You can endlessly spam Cissnei’s limit break: Lucky Stars to get to heavenly emotion status really quick and get tons of magic pot rolls without having to wait a million years. You will also level up your materia like crazy. You can also keep encountering the magic pot and following the same steps to get him and he will give out items as well.

I'm glad I found this at the beginning of ch3 in reactor 5. I figured it was pretty much "do missions asap". Currently just abusing Jump spam, though I knew that would eventually stop carrying me past 6 or 7star missions too reliably.

So as I’m looking the INVERSE can also be used to get Blast Wave which is MASTERED Assault Twister and Graviga. I think that would make things a lot easier instead of trying to spend to time leveling Graviga when there’s a decent chance someone mastered Assault Twister already.

This came at the best time I'm literally finishing missions before I start chapter 2 so hopefully I can follow this clearly to get nice & OP.

I was able to fuse mastered mug and rush assault for costly punch. I played ff7 crisis core original and i loved that game.

Love it thank you

Saw this vid when i was at chapter 4. Redid the whole game and am nkw at chap 2 with 9 gold pins 😁

Thanks for the guide. I will say for those spending hours on the magic pot farming that you only really need the golden rolling pins. Therefore, if you have bad luck with rng, I would do as others have suggested and just restart the mission and battle the magic pot at the beginning pot over and over until you get 5 rolling pins because you’re guaranteed the summon right after you get it. This is because it’s quicker and less irritating than spending more than a few hours trying to get the Shina Beta+. While kraiser knuckles and royal crowns might good at the beginning, eventually they won’t matter. Just my advice if the Gods of rng have something against you. Because really you only need the pins. Well and maybe some phoenix downs for some boss fights early on.

Brutal can also be acquired from mission 7-4-6 which was much earlier than the 9-5-1 option listed in the vid

Hell Blizzard + Gravita is so good that carried me over to later missions, then later it is equipments that helped me to not getting too weak such as crystal gloves, and shinra alpha, etc and then later on it is getting quake and wall that helped reduce damage from powerful attacks like in 4-4-4, I missed the magic pot but I got lucky with some golden pins and be able to purchase the equipments from the sect 7 shop, pretty cool. Now working on getting other materia like electrocute, etc so I can be more powerful

There are actually some areas where the Tonberry can get stuck along the sides of the areas. Usually around the rocks with the crystals on them. This makes "farming" this method pretty much afk besides having to press the prompt for the magic pot limit break. You can just do something else in the meanwhile.

The best way to get the Genji Shield if octoslash does not show up is when the pot says it is bored you can forfeit the battle and it will give you the chance to restart the encounter as much as you want.

Good video. Just to be clear to make the most of getting magic jar early, you have to get magic jar before getting ANY other summon?

Thanks! I used so many of your vids to get OP on Crisis Core, ff9 some years back and i look forward to using your guides for the other FF games.

The way I am in chap 4 already while watching this....lol

Hey incase anyone is wondering if you don't want to fight any enemies and just look for the chests and the boss you can just stick to the walls of the room and face the camera away from the center and they won't activate

Thank u and greetings from Spain 🇪🇸

... I didnt use any guides but I swear to god I am almost done doing this myself >_< I searched up crisis core lore and found this vid and Im in awe lol

Really good! Just wish you mentioned not killing the tornberry kinda sooner…I got to that part and I’m like oh…guess the rest is useless now 😂

So while farming Magic Pot is there anything specific you should get? I know you mentioned a few things but is it mostly the money and Shinra+?

The gold rolling pin grind works on series X, plus with quick resume, you don't have to sit around for hours. You can close the game and even turn off the console, then just resume when you start the game.

I found on farming the magic pot that after I got my first pot summon using the method Voxel Smith mentions in the comments to get my first level 5 pot, I stayed behind patiently waiting for more pot summons and killed a ton of tonberrys as who doesnt like smahing them things up. But I was able to get a ton of gil of the tomberrys them self 500 each, 10 rolling pins a ribbon and as a bonus encountered more magic pots when I used the moves it asked me dropped items like Docs code and Feather cap as extras. Not a bad farming area early game at all.

Question: how to get the hammer punch and steal materia early? Is there a specific mission or monster that i can get it from? Really appreciate if anyone knows.

Not sure if this has been posted but the tri-thundaga is in mission 4-4-4 not 4-4-3

It’s my first time playing so I’ll try this on my next run

The first thing you shoulda said was "this won't work if you beat 10 2 1 already. Coulda saved me some time.

For those who want to make Magic pot appear on DMW more often. Wait until you get Cissnei in Ch3. You will get highten emotion for Cissnei the moment you meet her in sector 8. Just go back to save point and start the mission 10-2-3 and avoid tonberry until you get magic pot dmw. After that start farming on the spot mention by primal. Cissnei Appear more ofter on this mode due to highten emotion icon and you'll get more chance of heavenly status. Why wait for Cissnei in Ch3? Magic pot is aligned to Cissnei in DMW and it always replace Cissnei during verge. If you did not get the goldpin in the first 3 Magic pot appearance in DMW, don't end the battle, simply forfeit and retry it again.

this is very frustrating to do in Hard mode but it would go a long way to making the rest of the game easier

Dude you rock!! Thanx alot for the aid, how many hours did you put in to figure that out?

Thank you, great explanation 👍

Hey thanks for the tutorials, super helpful and I'm working to kit out my build using some of this info. Question - How have you got 60,000 hp at the end of the video without the HP cap break item equipped? Do they need to be equipped or activated somehow? Am I being dumb here lol? I've got Brutal and a few of the other cap breakers in my inventory.

To clarify, in terms of getting Magic Pot on the DMW, what do you mean by "incredibly frequently"? I've been doing this for a while now on a fresh save doing everything exactly as described on Chapter 2 yet Magic Pot barely ever shows its face (I even had to start over because I picked up Ifrit by mistake in case that influenced anything)

The Tri-Thundga meteria is in a chest in the 4-4-4 mission

Thanks for this amazing guide, beat minerva in 13 hours!🎉

Wait a second! You uploaded the video the day after the game got released and you have so many hours put in the game. That must means you got your hands on an early copy. Nice! I was surprised by how much you know about this game. And now I know why. Because you got an early copy of the game. You played this game longer than most people. Now I'm no longer surprised. And also because you might know so much about the original game on the psp. This is the biggest reason why you know so much. Anyways, thats dope you got the game copy early. Thanks for the guides.

I would still advise grinding pins against the soldiers for two reasons: * allows easy afk grinding. Tonberries can get to you eventually. * you can quit and save, continue whenever you want. I got a lot more pots in mission 1-1-1 compared to tonberry mission.

I think Tri-Thundaga is on 4-4-4, rather than 4-4-3 mentioned @ 12:45. Just incase anyone is struggling to find it. It's the last of three chests on "Wutai in the Slums" behind the boss. You have to skirt round the side of boss to get to the chest.

Thanks so much for your guide! Only one question, Can I still do the magic Pot trick even after completing the 10-2-3 mission? I mean by restarting it?

I found for beating minerva it was best to move to the start of chapter 4 for the extra 2 accessory slots you can unlock.

Amazing guide, currently at chap 4 and im only lvl 18. Currently trying out the magic pot golden pin farmbut im here just running around a tonberry and I haven’t gotten a summon dmw. is there something i can do to get a better chance for it?

I have absolutely zero idea how it's even possible to complete the 4-5-X missions at that low of a level with only 2 accessories and 4 materia. 7 Star Missions with a Limit attack gauge that just cannot be beat down fast enough. Even with phoenix downs, thats at minimum 5 per fight, which unless you get incredibly lucky with Phoenix Down magic pots, I don't see how it's even possible.

Great job! Thanks you for this guide because I love beign able to break a game legitimatly 😁 Question: using Magic Pot I’ve earned 250.000 guil before defeating Master Tomberry. Are they enough or I need more Magic Pot farming?

Hell Firaga, Hell Blizzara, and Hell Thundraga are the most OP spells in the game. I found a way to essentially ensure that you can spam the spells in battle.

So I tried taking the advice of the materia missions first but I got stuck on the last mission of that part. How do you deal with the death claws that early though?

Great guide, but it seems like I'm the only one that was struggling with those five stars+ missions😂. I'm currently at level 21, 6 hours in, and at the start of chapter 4. May I ask how do you guys beat those missions so early in the game? Do I need to level up or should I just keep practicing until I get through them?

You know what, since this is the past FF7 game, I kinda wish they made a further past how Sephiroth became who he is today, so you can level him up cast some bizare magics and attacks, and towards end of game you get a katana called Masamune the legendary long sword that only Seph can wield with one hand lol.. Imagine how cool the gameplay can be when new game + can offer you modes that let you increase your power with the one wing angel and can pick costumes and stuff to wear during gameplay. DAYUM

First time playing I always wanted this game but never had psp and as soon as I got an idea of how things worked I was like this is breakable. But I'll play it normally to experience it properly

Biggest issue I had so far was all the Vajradhara enemies in the Wutai missions (4-x-x), there are 2 kinds and only one seems susceptible to Gravity, but the Vajradhara Indra isn't and is MUCH more common in the missions, especially as bosses. Using Gravity on him is just negated. Even with 2 Shinra Beta+ equuiped, his Boomerang attack can OHKO me

Even when Magic Pot is the only DMW from Chocobo Mode that I have, it sometimes fails because the middle wheel gives me blacked out characters like Cait Sith. Did anyone notice that?

This is easy. Just use materia fusion and upgrade your materia to get those one hit kills on enemies with dark firaga, dark thunderga, and dark blizraga. I also like using blizzara blade too. Plus if you have a fira blade or blizzara blade materia. You can Fuse those at max level with any dark top tier materia to get hell firaga, hell blizzaga, and hell tundraga. Which are super op materias and not too hard to get at the start of the game.

I did what you did exactly the same for unlocking magic pot and haven't left 10-2-3 yet, but for some reason I am getting all summons on my dmw, not just magic pot...(I now realize summons probably always showed up too, but I did indeed also get chocobo)

I'm interested in how you are able to complete missions 4-1-6 and all of the 6-3s. I am currently at level 16. I can't beat the boss on 4-1-6 and almost all the enemies in the the 6-3 one shot me.

Roughly much Gil would you say you'd need before moving on from farming Magic Pot in your guide? :)

Oooh primal did not suffer that long for a overpowered video 27hrs . Awesome vid as always

Way back when, I remember doing a Hard Mode ASAP challenge (there’s an FAQ available on Gamefaqs). Is this not essentially the video version? Thanks for the updated version!

I think the only issue here is clearing the 6 star missions before even being able to get the wutai shop. Even at level 25 and with a barrier, u can easily get one shotted.... so u may as well set aside some time to level barrier, gravity, cure, and poison to max before attempting any of the tough missions, and yes, it's a skill issue, I know lmao. Another thing is this version of the game kinda made a bunch of enemies immune to gravity, which is silly imo

We all knew this was coming this fast.

I played the original on the psp back in the day and bought ff7 from my cousin back in 97 for 10 bucks been hooked ever since and I'm almost 40 now even my kids play it with me I'm just glad they left it the same as the psp and added more things to it suck the voice actors changed for Zack but it is what it is still a great game

Hey, I’ve got a question for you. If you get Magic Pot as a Summon on 10-2-3, and still run into Magic Pot as a random encounter, could you just use that Magic Pot stay like you’re fighting a Tonberry, or does Magic Pot run away if you don’t do the moves? Edit: I just answered my own question. Ran into Magic Pot again, and he goes away after a couple of minutes. Was trying to find a way I can just idle with a Tonberry, but it wasn’t happening, so I wondered if I could do it with Magic Pot.

just thought I’d point out that if you’re going for the Genji Shield, you NEED to make sure you’ve already unlocked the magic pot DMW, because otherwise that’s the only reward you will get, I did this magic pot first and ended up having to do it all over again, and since I’m in chapter 4 with no Octaslash materia, it took me like 5 hours total

I want to correct something you said about Tri-Thundaga, it's actually in the next mission, 4-4-4 "Wutai in the Slums", specifically in the chest that's a little beyond the boss of the map. On a personal level I'm actually struggling to clear this mission as the boss seems to ALWAYS, 100% of the time cast it's "ultimate" attack and there's just no way for me to even get it under 75% damage and it just does 12k and insta kills me.

So, I did the long 10-2-3 grind until I couldn't stand it anymore, and I think most people would find it less obnoxious to grind up Magic Pot loot in 1-1-1 after finishing 10-2-3 than trying to extend it. Yes, it's less common, but you have to be paying attention throughout the ENTIRE grind session. Hanging around in 1-1-1 is: * Essentially risk-free. * Can be quit and restarted whenever. * Is nearly input-free. I played on PC, and I was able to keep Crisis Core running in the background while I did other things and just tabbed over when I saw the yellow and purple for Item Mugger.

Bit late to this video I've already beat the game and minerva on normal did use your guide on minerva though for that fight

Honestly, I found missions to be pretty fun. Spent a good amount of time on them, and I didn't know most of these existed. Nice!

Where on earth do you hammer punch...

I found this video after already fighting to m9-4 in the mako reactor 5 - I feel like I’m gonna one shot story bosses for the rest of the game after I finish this side mission grind. I just can’t resist playing side missions until they are all done or I’m like hard gated before I continue with story

Do I have to those missions in order before beating the mission? Or do I have to find an earlier save before beating those mission?

I'm failing to see how blast waves is incredibly useful for missions. Practically everything, including the bosses, are immune to it. Maybe it was broken years ago but I don't see it being all that useful in this version.

Why he talking like Kermit though.

What do you reccomend using for beating the later missions such as 9-5-6 in chapter 3? I have all the material and accesories you mentioned and am still getting my ass kicked on 8 star mission.

Both times I got Magic Pot to appear in the 2 hours, he appeared under Chocobo mode first. Am I screwed or should I restart a previous save and try the mission over again?

Am i the only one that found this guide so useless?!. How do I start leveling up once i got the materials you said to get? A total waste of time

Hi Primal, question. At the beginning of your video you said to complete all of the 8-2 missions 1-6 but in the list with all of the missions listed in red, you have M8-2-6 after M10-2-3. I've completed all M8 missions except for 8-2-6. Should I complete it before I start the M6 missions or wait till after M10-2-3?

Well dang im way past chapter 4, so i am gonna have to find some way t apply some of this guide to my current file